Undergarment



June'ZZ, 1937. CURCIO 2,084,837

UNDERGARMENT Filed Aug. 8,1936 2 Sheets-Sheet l ISnnentor LOFZA/ZG wee/0 June 22, 1937, L CURCIO 2,084,837

UNDERGARMENT Filed Aug. 8, 1936 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 inventor LUBE/V210. cues/0 Patented June 22, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,084,837 UNDERGARMENT Lorenzo Curcio, Philadelphia, Pa. Application August 8, 1936, SerialvNo. 94,930

2 Claims.

My invention relates to a new and useful undergarment and it relates more particularly to mens shorts or trunks used'as a netherg'arment, as well as long-leg undergarment.

The object of my invention is to provide a nethergarment of 'this character which will be more comfortable, which will prevent chafing and which will be self-supporting and which will possess certain other desirable characteristics not heretofore embodied in nethergarments. This application is a substitute for my previous application, Serial No. 719,062 filed April 5, 1934. For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in the accompanying drawings,

one form thereof which is at present preferred by me, since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory and reliable results, al-- though it is to be understood that the various instrumentalities of which my invention consists can be variously arranged and organized and that my invention is not limited to the precise arrangement and organization of the instrumentalities as herein shown and described.

Referring to the drawings in which like reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the nethergarment embodying my invention.

'Figure 2 is a section generally on line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section generally on line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view taken generally on line 44 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 represents a plan view of one of the two half body sections of the garment laid out Figure 6 represents a similar plan view of the partition panel.

Figure 7 represents a similar plan view of one of the two waist sections.

Figure 8 represents a similar plan View of one of the two diagonal reinforcing strips.

The nethergarment of my present invention is generally of the bifurcated type, and is formed of two more or less similar halves designated generally by A and B, which are composed of two more or less similar body sections l0 illustrated particularly in Figure 5. The edge I I and the edge portion l2 ofeach body section I0 is seamed together to form the leg portions, by means of the similar seams I3A and |3B, while the edge M of the two similar body sections [0 is seamed together to form the rear seam I5. The similar curved edges IE on the two body sections III are united to form the crotch seam I! in horizontal edge 35 thereof.

direct continuationof the rear seam l5. The portions 18 serve to form the two overlapping front fly portions 19 and 20 respectively. It .will be seen that by this novel construction, the leg seams l3-A and l3-B are somewhat to the rear of the center of the crotch, and but a single seam is provided in each leg. The lower edge 2| is folded in and hemmed as at 22 to provide suitable edging. A partition panel 23 is mounted in one side of the garment, as indicated particularly in Figures 1, 2 and 3 with theedge 24 thereof seamed into the leg seam l3B so that lower edge 25 (which is suitably hemmed) is disposed slightly above the lower edge of the corresponding leg 13 as indicated particularly in Figures 1 and 3, and so that the upper edge 26 (also suitably hemmed) is approximately at the crotch line. The upright edge 21 on the other hand, is then sewn to the side of the leg along the seam 28, terminating in the waist zone as at 29. The proportions are so arranged that the transverse span of the member 23 is slightly less than the corresponding spanned portion of the leg of the garment, so that the panel 23 will normally tend to stand away from the side of the leg B.

The upper edge 30 of each of the body sections In is suitably shirred or gathered more or less at the points 3| so as to give fullness in the garment, and to the thus shirred or gathered edges, the waist band sections 32 and re-inforcing sections 33 are sewn. The re-inforcing section 33 is so out that the warp indicated by the, shade lines, runs parallel to the inclined edge 34 thereof, while the waist band section 32 is so cut that the warp thereof runs parallel to the It is to be understood that these two pieces could also be cut so that the weft would run in these mentioned directions;the requirement being merely that in the Waist band section 32, there shall be threads (either warp or weft) running parallel to the edge 35, while in the reinforcing sections, a set of threads (either warp or weft) should run generally parallel to the edge 34. The edge 35 and the edge 36 are then united by a line of sewn stitches (invisible in the finished garment), indicated at 31 in Figure 4, and the inclined edge 34 (suitably turned in) of the re-inforcing sections 33, together with the rear portion of the edges 35, isthen sewn to the upper edges 30 of the respective body section ID by a line of sewn stitches indicated at 39 in Figure 4, also invisible in the finished garment. Then, the members 32 and 33 are folded over along the edge 40, and the edge 38 of the waist section (also suitably hereby claim as new and folded in) is then sewn to the body sections ill of the garment along the line of sewn stitches 4 I. The front fly of. the garment is then suitably finished as indicated in Figures 1 and '3 of the drawings. A series of button-holes 42 my be provided in the waist band section 43 of the garment, on either side, and an adjustment strap (of fabric or the like), sewed to the waist band at 44 and provided with a series of buttons 45, may be provided for effecting adjustment in the effective circumferential dimension of the waist band. The waist band is then fastened in the front by suitable fastening means as buttons and button-holes 46 and 41.

By reason of the diagonal dispositionofthe threads in the re-inforcing sections 33, the natural give in the fabric of the'garment is'counteracted on the bias, so that the front of the gara ment will give better support to the abdominal regions bounded thereby, and the tendency to distortthe garment is thus also prevented.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: v a

1. A mensbifurcated nethergarment comprising two leg sections united to each other along a rear seam and crotch seam, and a generally upright partition'sectioninoneof the twoleg sections having a short rear edge thereof secured to the inner side of the leg somewhat behind the center of the crotch said rear partition edge being separate and distinct from the rear seam and spaced somewhat ahead of said rear seam, and having the front thereof secured to the inner side of the leg somewhat in advance of the center of the crotch the partition section being otherwise unsecured to the nethergarrnent; the partition wall being spaced substantially to one side of the vertical median plane of the garment, and said partition section being contained wholly within said leg section.

2. A men's bifurcated nethergarment comprisi-ng two leg sections united to each other along a rear seam and crotch seam, and a generally upright partition section in one of the two leg sections having a short rear edge thereof secured .said partition section being contained wholly within said leg section, and having. an upper seamed edge extending upwardly from a point aheadof the rear towards the front of the gar-l ment.

LORENZO CURCIO. 

